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Tajour Embry

Case from Pittsburgh, PA dated Dec 14, 2015

Victim Details

Tajour Embry

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Pittsburgh

PA

2015-12-14

2015-12-14

21

Tajour

Embry

07/08/2026

1


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In the early moments of a Monday morning, the sound of gunfire pierced the pre-dawn stillness of the Homewood North housing project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was December 14, 2015, when 21-year-old Tajour Embry and his friend, 19-year-old Shaquille Maynor, were fatally shot. Their bodies were later discovered in a common hallway on the first floor of one of the buildings in the complex. The two young men were pronounced dead at the scene from apparent gunshot wounds.

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